we should all go mob-handed to redmond and have a gander, see if we can find some more information on how microsoft tried to screw over the linux community via sco.
Its effectively the same, except we'd be breaking the law, companies are asking if they can do it legally (kind of).
or even better (for all apps) put it in ~/.bash_profile: #!/bin/bash export me=`whoami` mkdir/tmp/firefox-$me >>/dev/null chmod 700/tmp/firefox-$me expoty TEMP="/tmp/firefox-$me"
(ignore the generally bad scripting and the fact it probably doesn't work as it is, im just showing that its an administration issue, like the pairent poster said above). also i know this would break apps that run suid nobody.
1 laser per bit optical drives could replace hard drives as they would be much faster than hard drives to read/write (no need to wait for the bit to come round to the laser, no need to move the laser, infact this would result in the io interconnect being the only constraint to multiple simultaneous read/write operations, instant read/write would also result in and no need for drive cache), and they would have no moving parts, resuling in a very fast, very low power (although unfortunatly very expensive) mass storage.
next-next gen optical drives could double as removable and fixed storage too.
I want one.
(as you can tell by the complete mess above, i was thinking outloud and also you'll probably beable to tell that i know nothing about this field so its probably all wrong)
If you use mythtv, you can use the backend in a different room (with multiple tuners if you like) on a computer with a combine harvester type fan, and the frontend on a not so great quiet as shit computer, connected to the other by ethernet cable or even 802.11*
I got an alrite looking remote (looks better than my freeview remote) with my videomate tvcard. Now to figure out lirc.
I remember when i had a 486dx@66mhz and my friend had a computer. It was a beast - PII@266mhz iirc.
Also i used to play a game (championship manager 96/97) which i think was a little outdated , and my friend had a 450mhz comp - it didn't even take 15 mins to create a new game file, on my 486 it took nearly 2 hours.
I used to think their pc's were amazing (at the respective times)
Linux was probalby possible (some college stuent writing a minix clone from scratch?), and he thought it would be crap. Here's the newsgroup post:
Hello everybody out there using minix -
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
...
PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have:-(.
they wont be a problem anywhere near what y2k should have been, because most people will be using >32-bit processors.
8 bit wont matter as if they are on unix time it would be well before 2038 (would it have already passed?).
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we should all go mob-handed to redmond and have a gander, see if we can find some more information on how microsoft tried to screw over the linux community via sco.
Its effectively the same, except we'd be breaking the law, companies are asking if they can do it legally (kind of).
did you know there's a design view in quanta? i'd been using it for quite a while until i found that.
Well for a start, screensavers should be sandboxed and run as nobody or eqivalent, definately elephantly.
(i dont know how other os's do it, but they should)
Must have got some new employess they haven't managed to "train" properly yet
afaik your allowed to download copies of the latest version, just not from them. email them to check, then go gander for a torrent.
maybe a firefox extention to change windose, winblows and windoze to Microsoft Windows(TM).
You can have all of the UK's refugee's (we have the same system) and there's just too many of them as they exploit our retarded welfare system
What you on about. I though iraq was next to france, iran is east of turkey.
Fool.
trust me, get a dvd lens cleaner - for your ps2, you'll thanks me for it.
You can buy them for about £5 in the uk , which is definately worth it compared to buying a ps2 again.
the /tmp problem could be solved by creating a directory of the users name in /tmp and doing chmod 700 /tmp/$user
/tmp/$user as the $temp environment variable
/tmp/firefox-$me /tmp/firefox-$me
/tmp/firefox-$me >> /dev/null /tmp/firefox-$me
then using
a script below could be used for opening firefox which would fix the problem (administration issue as you say, not an application issue)
This below (if it works, not tested, but it gives a general idea)
#!/bin/bash
export me=`whoami`
mkdir
chmod 700
TEMP=/tmp/firefox-$me firefox
or even better (for all apps) put it in ~/.bash_profile:
#!/bin/bash
export me=`whoami`
mkdir
chmod 700
expoty TEMP="/tmp/firefox-$me"
(ignore the generally bad scripting and the fact it probably doesn't work as it is, im just showing that its an administration issue, like the pairent poster said above). also i know this would break apps that run suid nobody.
1 laser per bit optical drives could replace hard drives as they would be much faster than hard drives to read/write (no need to wait for the bit to come round to the laser, no need to move the laser, infact this would result in the io interconnect being the only constraint to multiple simultaneous read/write operations, instant read/write would also result in and no need for drive cache), and they would have no moving parts, resuling in a very fast, very low power (although unfortunatly very expensive) mass storage.
next-next gen optical drives could double as removable and fixed storage too.
I want one.
(as you can tell by the complete mess above, i was thinking outloud and also you'll probably beable to tell that i know nothing about this field so its probably all wrong)
Get a dvd lens cleaner, theyre not snake oil and they actually work.
Same thing happened to my gf's mum's ps/2 but that works now
If you use mythtv, you can use the backend in a different room (with multiple tuners if you like) on a computer with a combine harvester type fan, and the frontend on a not so great quiet as shit computer, connected to the other by ethernet cable or even 802.11*
I got an alrite looking remote (looks better than my freeview remote) with my videomate tvcard. Now to figure out lirc.
I remember when i had a 486dx@66mhz and my friend had a computer. It was a beast - PII@266mhz iirc.
Also i used to play a game (championship manager 96/97) which i think was a little outdated , and my friend had a 450mhz comp - it didn't even take 15 mins to create a new game file, on my 486 it took nearly 2 hours.
I used to think their pc's were amazing (at the respective times)
I remember my dad upgrading my 486 to a gig.
Yes, a whole, entire, full gig, back when a gig meant a gigabyte and not a gigibyte.
Damn! I'l catch you out one day....
oo: His pairents told him to stop wasting time because it'l never become anything more than a heap of shit that only runs on 386's.
(ok, i made that up)
No, that bug was fixed in a patch for windows 98 afaik (how somebody managed to find that bug still evades me)
Linux was probalby possible (some college stuent writing a minix clone from scratch?), and he thought it would be crap. Here's the newsgroup post:
maybe if everybody on slashdot sued him for slander?
im guessing she meant the apparently great v4l2 api built into linux, which i assume hp would be using.
YEAH!!! 3d acceleration and >0.01fps in games is for sheep
they wont be a problem anywhere near what y2k should have been, because most people will be using >32-bit processors. 8 bit wont matter as if they are on unix time it would be well before 2038 (would it have already passed?).
how about this:
/usr/sbin/Elocate ; chmod +x /usr/sbin/Elocate
#!/bin/bash
Eterm -e locate $1
i'l even write an installer for you:
printf "#!/bin/bash\nEterm -e locate $1" >
usage:
Elocate yourtext
(obviously being a quick lazy slashdot post, this doesn't handle anything with spaces)
Well i doubt debian will ever incude crapware, as they even have a seperate section for closed source good software, like opera, iirc.
Not that i use debian, i use gentoo but i think debians religeous style fanatacism might be good on this matter
It would be slightly revealing if XP does suffer from unix time problems though. Can somebody with a windows box test it?